The Straits Times, 18 May 1986

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    14 1 The Sunday Times No: 2606 55 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 189/12/85 MAY 18, 1986
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    'Fast food will kill hawker centres'
    443 1  -  AUDREY PERERA By WESTERN fast-food restaurants will kill hawker centres outside Housing Board estates, a university don asserted yesterday. The Mass Rapid Transit system will also help to do them in, he added boldly. Hawker centres in HDB estates will be spared only because
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    Defend the Govt, PAP men told
    454 1 Defend the Govt, PAP men told Your silence giving Opposition a clear field, says Teng Cheong MEMBERS of the People's Action Party have been asked to stand up in defence of government policies instead of allowing a vocal minority to get away with unfounded criticism. The call came from the
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    Lock icon Taiwan still refusing to pick up plane
    230 1 HONGKONG China and Taiwan cut short their first face-to-face meeting in 37 years yesterday, deadlocked over Beijing's demand that Taiwan's national airline send officials to China to pick up a hijacked jumbo cargo jet and members of its crew. A Taiwanese spokesman said
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    Lock icon Pill inventor homes in on roaches
    104 1 Pill inventor homes in on roaches NEW YORK Carl Djerassi, who invented the hormone that led to development of an oral contraceptive for women in 1951, may now have done for those dark spaces under the sink what the Pill did for the bedroom. He has developed an insect birth
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    Lock icon Tots are our Sport Aid contingent
    454 1  -  AUDREY PERERA By NEXT week, these tots will spend 45 minutes playing for pay. "We are raising money for the African children because they don't have any clothes and food," said five-year-old Warren Mah who, together with more than 1,000 others, will do his
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    Couple went to school with deadly shopping cart
    272 1 Couple went to school with deadly shopping cart COKEVILLE (Wyoming) A former police chief and his wife wheeled a shopping cart filled with explosives into a primary school and took ISO hostages to back demands for a ransom of US$3OO million (***** million). But 90 minutes later, the woman accidentally
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      141 1 ■p|H FOCUS Cloud that set off fear and panic _l_3 SS^_t^Ri A lesson from kidney drive SUNDAY PLUS -_^_> tv Bvt iiihM-w __E^__ Growing up with Father Where tour packages are cheaper TV PLUS «_-_-_k W R-Ml-^-3 tal *"""*\^______u tV*. I*Ji It's all a riot on the beauty front ASIA
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      8 1 Singaporeans in the eyes of foreigners: Page 2
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  • AT A GLANCE
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      MIGRATION THREAT
      68 2 Declining Western birth rates and increasing populations in underdeveloped countries are causing a migration problem. Experts say that unless governments start planning to control the problem, many jobless people from Third World nations will be forced to move illegally to Western countries to survive. Illegal immigration has been
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      CHEMICAL ARMS NOD
      80 2 The United States may now resume production of chemical weapons after a break of 17 years. Although its Nato allies have given Washington approval to replace its ageing stocks to offset a Soviet advantage in the field, members are divided on the decision. Some have said they
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      AFGHAN JET SHOT DOWN
      69 2 Pakistan shot down an Afghan fighter jet after four planes violated its territory. Another aircraft was hit. The plane was the first Afghan aircraft shot down over Pakistan since the war between Kabul and Muslim guerillas began seven years ago. The Pakistanis said Kabul's Soviet-backed government
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      GUNMEN ATTACK INTERPOL HQ
      79 2 Apo- liceman was wounded when gunmen attacked the Pans headquarters of Interpol. Three or four gunmen sprayed bullets at the front of the seven-storey building and then hurled a bomb or grenade. The front of the building was damaged and two parked cars destroyed. The extreme
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      BOMBING SUSPECTS
      83 2 Jakarta police are seeking three Japanese, including a woman, believed to be behind the recent bombings and rocket attacks on foreign embassies in the city. They said the suspects may have already left Indonesia for Tokyo. The chief of the Indonesian security forces has been quoted as saying
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      PAP CONCERT
      98 2 The People's Action Party has invited pop musicians to perform at a concert organised by the party. Popular local band Tokyo Square and two top Hongkong singers, Anita Mui and Michael Lai, will take the stage at a two-hour charity concert. First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong,
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      ANGLERS STAY AWAY
      77 2 The posters say you can catch huge snake-heads at Kranji Reservoir. But anglers are not convinced and are staying away. Since the PUB opened up the reservoir to fishing in March last year, response has been poor. The main reason, say anglers, is that there are too
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      BREAKFAST WITH THE BIRDS
      77 2 The Jurong Bird Park is building a Singing Bird Terrace where visitors can enjoy breakfast while listening to the birds sing. More than 50 local singing birds such as the mata puteh, merbok jambul, China thrush and sharma will provide nature's music from swinging cages. Visitors
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  • SPORTS
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      FATHERHOOD ON HIS MIND
      87 2 It looks like John McEnroe (right) will not play at this year's Wimbledon. His girlfriend Tatum O'Neal is heavily pregnant. "The thought of fatherhood has gotten the best of my tennis right now," McEnroe said in an interview. "I'm preparing to become a father and that
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      WORLD CUP TREAT
      87 2 When the World Cup Fi- nals kick off in two weeks, Singaporeans will get to watch 42 of the 52 matches "live", thanks to SBC and RTM. The other 10 matches will be telecast delayed. This is more than what viewers in England and the United States
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    How foreigners see us
    865 2 The Singaporean can be distinguished from his overseas Chinese cousins by his "more Western-minded, more straightforward and brusque" attitude, said Brigadier-General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong. How indeed does the Singaporean affect his fellowmen, both Asian and Western? HONGKONG businessmen have a stronger word for their Singaporean
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    Britannia sinks further in sea of international competition
    709 2  - Britannia sinks further in sea of international competition DONALD HIGGS By London Correspondent IN THE days when Britannia ruled the waves, Britain produced the lion's share of world shipping. And, just after the last war, half of the tonnage afloat still came from British shipyards. today, all that is little
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    What sets the S'porean traveller apart
    435 2 TRAVEL agents say the Singaporean traveller is often an embarrassment to his country. While he is often better dressed than other Asian travellers, and is more free-spend-ing, he is also aloof, impatient and intolerant when things go wrong. His passion is not old castles,
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      151 2 UP TO 1 pm. Showers over several areas in the mominf. TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 31 max.. 26 min SUNSET today: 7.06 pm; Sunrise tomorrow: 6.56 am. TRAVELLERS' HEATHER Adelaide 11 16 C Rain Manila 23 34 C Rain Amsterdam G Melbourne 13 19 C Rain Bangkok
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    Inside Hospital NO. 6: A race against time
    666 3 Inside Hospital NO. 6: A race against time MOSCOW FOR the past two weeks, Moscow Hospital No. 6, a nine-sto-rey brown-brick building on the outskirts of the city, has been the centre of a desperate effort to treat the most seriously afflicted victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Soviet and
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    Lock icon Lankan economy in dire straits, says minister
    331 3 Lankan economy in dire straits, says minister COLOMBO Economic recovery in Sri Lanka will take at least 10 years even if the guerilla war fought by Tamil separatists ends immediately, Finance Minister Ronnie De Mel estimates. In a gloomy assessment of the economy following bomb attacks in Colombo that killed
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    Russians may claim damages if Western sensors at fault
    287 3 Russians may claim damages if Western sensors at fault HAMBURG (West Germany) THE Soviet Union's nuclear reactor at Chernobyl was equipped with Western-made control instruments and Soviet experts are investigating whether they could be linked to the disaster there, a West German expert said on Friday. Mr Paul Zieber, head
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    Lock icon The unofficial selling of Singapore
    404 3  -  AUDREY PERERA Story: A LUMINOUS Merlion glows atop a tiny palm-fringed beach. Sir Stamford Raffles, arms folded and all, stands like a wall between Singapore's commercial skyline and a cluster of moored tongkangs. These are some of the T-shirt scenes the souvenircollecting tourist takes home
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
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      Lock icon Bloody end to bizarre ransom bid
      84 4 A POLICE Swat team member marking the scene of the Cokevtlle Elementary School bomb blast In Wyoming. The body la the background Is that of Deris Young, one ef two peeple killed. About 15 ethers were injured. Doris Young and her husband David had
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      Lock icon 'Vampire doctors' taking too much
      309 4 BOSTON ALTHOUGH the practice of bloodletting to cure diseases was abandoned at the beginning of this century, doctors today may be unwittingly draining patients of excessive amounts of blood by ordering too many blood tests. A new study has found that most patients in intensive
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      Lock icon Greenpeace shows how
      84 4 LONDON Members of the environmental group Greenpeace boarded a ship transporting nuclear waste on Friday to show how vulnerable such ships would be to terrorist attacks, the group said in a statement received here. The Greenpeace ship Sirius intercepted the Mediterranean Shearwater off Gibraltar as the 2,500-tonne
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      Lock icon Help Third World or face migrant tide, West told
      360 4 Help Third World or face migrant tide, West told PARIS Jobless people from Third World nations will stream to the Western world in large numbers over the next 40 years unless governments start planning to control the problem. Migration experts said here on Thursday at the end of a conference
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      Lock icon Egyptian spy ring busted, says Libya
      265 4 TRIPOLI Libya said it has cracked an Egyptian spy network that helped guide United States warplanes during the raids last month on Tripoli and Benghazi. Jana news agency said the Egyptian leader of the ring has been arrested and four US-made radio transmitters seized.
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        Lock icon Rat poison deaths
        88 4 THOUSANDS OF cats and dogs have been killed in a rat extermination campaign throughout China because of carelessly placed rat poison, the People's Daily reported in Beijing yesterday. It said that 9,700 cats, 1,500 dogs, 8,000 chickens and 500 ducks had died after eating rat poison in
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        Lock icon Professor's alibi
        97 4 A PROFESSOR of English was cleared of soliciting a woman police officer disguised as a prostitute after he convinced a court in Vancouver that he was only doing research for a novel. "I wanted to make conversation, not love," said Paul Ostrowski of the University of British Colombia.
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        Lock icon Millionaire defector
        74 4 A CHINESE Air Force defector became a millionaire yesterday when he received a reward in gold equivalent to US$l.7 million (553.75 million) for flying a MiG-19 jetfighter out of China. Chen Bao-Chung, 26, was also commissioned a major in the Taiwan Air Force. He defected on Feb 22,
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        Lock icon Divorce ban lifted
        92 4 THE LOWER House of the Irish Parliament in Dublin has approved without opposition a proposal for a referendum on ending the republic's constitutional ban on divorce. The Bill, calling for an amendment to the constitution which would allow divorce after a marriage has failed for at least
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        Lock icon Priest on arms charge
        55 4 POLICE YESTERDAY held a high-ranking South African Catholic priest on charges of possessing illegal arms and ammunition. Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, secretarygeneral of the South African Catholic Bishops Conference, was taken into custody on Friday outside his parish in the Black Soshanguve townshiD. a police spokesman said
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      Lock icon World's oldest statesman turns 104
      101 4 World's oldest statesman turns 104 ANKARA The world's oldest statesman, former Turkish President Celal Bayar (above), celebrated his 104th birthday on Friday, claiming that politics and friendship were the secret of his longevity. Hoisting a glass of the national Turkish drink, raki, Mr Bayar told visitors at his native village
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      Lock icon Search for Napoleon's fleet
      77 4 Search for Napoleon's fleet ALEXANDRIA A French mine-sveeper carrying 18 divers and underwater photographers has arrived here to resume a four-year-old effort to recover the wreckage of the fleet of Napoleon Bonaparte. The fleet was destroyed and sunk by Lord Nelson in the Battle of the Nile in 1798. The
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      Lock icon Official sacked in US clamp on leaks
      255 5 Official sacked in US clamp on leaks WASHINGTON The United States government, which has been cracking down on information leaks, announced that it had dismissed a mid-level State Department employee (or disclosing classified matter to the news media. The official, who was not named, leaked information involving US diplomatic relations,
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      Lock icon Buried alive
      31 5 BRASILIA Seven workers at an iron mine at Itabirito, Brazil, were buried under tonnes of mud and dirt when a retaining wall at an open-air iron mine collapsed. UPI
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      Lock icon Shuttle notes 'destroyed'
      192 5 WASHINGTON The Challenger commission is investigating allegations that space agency engineers destroyed potentially significant rocket documents after the shuttle disaster even though all records were impounded, the space agency said. Former Secretary of State William Rogers, the commission's chairman, told the s jace agency the panel had
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      Lock icon Extinct reptile on the wing
      162 5 SCIENTIST Paul MacCready posing with ft replica of ft pterosaur he ereoiei for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum daring ft test in California recently. The plastic, radio-con-trolled replica of ft creature that disappeared from earth about 15 million yean ago is scheduled to
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      Lock icon Suicide rate among young Americans up 800%
      109 5 Suicide rate among young Americans up 800% NEW YORK Suicide among American children younger than 15 has risen nearly 800 per cent in a little more than a generation, a survey shows. The Statistical Bulletin, published by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, said that although the US suicide rate has remained
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      Lock icon Allies give US go-ahead on chemical arms
      436 5 Allies give US go-ahead on chemical arms THE United States has been given the go-ahead by its European allies to resume the production of chemical weapons after a break of 17 years. But congressional funding for the plan may be influenced by the reluctance of many of its Nato allies,
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      Lock icon Bulls run out of steam on Wall Street
      96 5 Dow Jones NEW YORK Wall Street stocks closed lower in subdued trading on Friday as concern over interest rates continued to keep a lid on the bull market that reached its peak in mid-April. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 14.88 points
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      Lock icon Nicaraguan rebel leader surrenders
      209 5 SAN JOSE (Costa Rica) His troops and funds depleted, Nicaraguan rebel leader Eden Pastora has given up his fight against the Sandinista government. He surrendered to Costa Rican authorities on Friday in the hope of winning asylum. "We don't want to be soldiers of the United
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      Lock icon 600 million condoms, yet they're hard to find
      146 6 BEIJING Chna has Ml million f dtPM piled up in warehouses hat they are hard to find in shops which focus high-profit Items. Drugstores in some areas had been taking condoms and other goods which do not earn profits off the shelves
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      Lock icon Pakistan shoots down Afghan fighter jet
      344 6 Pakistan shoots down Afghan fighter jet ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN shot down an Afghan fighter jet and hit another aircraft yesterday after four planes violated its territory over the mountainous Kurram Salient, a Foreign Ministry statement said. The fighter, the first Afghan aircraft shot down over Pakistan since the war between Kabul
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      Lock icon Sport Aid runner arrives in Athens
      187 6 ATHENS Lt Omar Khalifa, a champion middle-distance runner from drought-stricken Sudan, ran through Athens to the ancient Acropolis yesterday at the start of a Sport Aid marathon through 12 European cities to raise funds for African famine relief. Lt Omar, who won the 1,500
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      Lock icon S. Korean youths call off sit-in
      151 6 S. Korean youths call off sit-in SEOUL About 50 young Catholics occupied a church office for several hours in an anti-government protest at Kwangju yesterday, one threatening to jump to his death if riot police tried to evict them. The youths took over the fifth floor of a Christian centre
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      Lock icon Punjab's Chief Minister cleans shoes as penance
      401 6 Punjab's Chief Minister cleans shoes as penance NEW DELHI Punjab's Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala began to clean the shoes of Sikh devotees yesterday as punishment for ordering a commando raid on the Golden Shrine at Amritsar, the Press Trust of India reported. Mr Barnala was told to clean shoes
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      Lock icon A pledge to non-Chinese in Hongkong
      237 6 LONDON Both the Conservative government and the Labour opposition have pledged that Britain would treat with sympathy requests for admission into the country of 11,500 people of non-Chinese origin in Hongkong if they come under pressure to leave the colony after it reverts to
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      Lock icon Seoul scraps plan for basement tax
      103 6 to slap a property tax on basement rooms many built at the government's urging to serve as air-raid shelters. Some home-owners had faced property taxes up to 90 per cent higher than last year's, mainly because the assessors decided to count basement floor space.
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      Lock icon Actress' fast brings help to the poor
      181 6 Actress' fast brings help to the poor NEW DELHI Shabana Azmi, one of India's most re* spected film actresses, ended her hunger strike on Friday after government officials agreed to help dislocated slum dwellers, the United News of India reported. Miss Azmi, 34, had stopped eating four days earlier to
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      New lira will knock off three zeros
      310 7 New lira will knock off three zeros ROME A new lira worth a thousand times more than the present currency, whose many noughts often cause foreigners confusion and give accountants headaches, will be introduced in Italy. The Cabinet agreed to this on Friday but postponed the approval of a draft
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      Young boys in vice ring shocks Britain
      160 7  - Young boys in vice ring shocks Britain DONALD HIGGS By London Correspondent LONDON Court revelations of a prostitution ring that involves young boys and known as the "meat rack" has shocked Britain. A parliamentary campaign has been launched to wipe out the trade following the jailing of one of the
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      Lock icon No policy changes, says Thatcher
      203 7 LONDON Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has defended her policies and said she did not plan to change them, despite opinion poll indications that the government's popularity has dropped to a five-year low. Speaking to Scottish Conservatives at their annual conference in Perth, Scotland, Mrs Thatcher
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      Police accused of bungling Palme murder probe
      185 7 STOCKHOLM A PROSECUTOR'S report has accused the police of bungling the investigation into the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and seriously violating the rights of a man who was briefly arrested in connection with the case. The Stockholm Public Prosecutor said
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      Lock icon Leftist gunmen throw bomb at Interpol HQ
      393 7 Leftist gunmen throw bomb at Interpol HQ PARIS LEFTWING gunmen using automatic weapons and explosives on Friday night attacked the Paris headquarters of Interpol, the international criminal police organisation, wounding a policeman on guard outside the building. Police said three or four gunmen sprayed the front of the seven-storey building
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      Lock icon WHO worries about spread of Aids
      103 7 WHO worries about spread of Aids GENEVA The World Health Organisation annual assembly expressed concern about the spreading killer disease, Aids, and urged all 166 memberstates to co-operate fully in fighting it. A report by WHO DirectorGeneral Half dan Mahler said 22,069 cases of Aids in 83 countries had been
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  • ASEAN NEWS
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      Lock icon Signs of increased Indonesian-Soviet trade
      166 8 Signs of increased IndonesianSoviet trade JAKARTA A Soviet trade exhibition here has clinched sales contracts worth about US$l million (552.2 million) and this is seen by both countries as opening the way for increased bilateral trade. The contracts signed during the 10-day exhibition indicated increased Indonesian interest in buying Soviet
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      Lock icon Seven killed in copter crash
      79 8 Seven killed in copter crash BANGKOK A Thai army helicopter returning from a military exercise crashed into a hill in north-central Thailand, killing all seven on board. Investigators have searched the wreckage for clues to the cause of the crash on Friday in Nakhon Sawan province, 242 km north of
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      Lock icon Three Japanese sought for embassy attacks
      502 8 Three Japanese sought for embassy attacks JAKARTA THREE Japanese, including a woman, are believed to be behind the recent bombings and rocket attacks on the United States, Canadian and Japanese embassies here. The Jakarta police chief, Ma j -Gen Soedarmadji, said yesterday that they had positive indications of this and
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      Lock icon We're fed up with occupation, say Viet defectors
      353 8 We're fed up with occupation, say Viet defectors BANGKOK Forty Vietnamese soldiers and 95 Cambodian troops surrendered to the Thai authorities early this month, a Thai military spokesman said on Friday. The defectors gave themselves up in Prachinburi province, 134 km east of Bangkok. The defecting Cambodian troops of the
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      Lock icon Second break-in at Malacanang
      234 8 MANILA Intruders broke into Malacanang Palace apparently looking for something in the private suite of Mrs Imelda Marcos, wife of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos. The break-in early yesterday was the second at Malacanang Palace (above) since Mr Marcos was deposed and Mrs Corazon Aquino became president
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      Lock icon Govt-in-exile? No, says Marcos
      268 8 HONOLULU DEPOSED Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has hit out at a newspaper report in the United States that charged him with setting up a government in exile in Hawaii. "I have refrained in the past from commenting on the lies and distortions about me and my
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
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      Lock icon No room for oppression, says Mahathir
      213 10 No room for oppression, says Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR There is no room for oppression or exploitation by any government agency such as the police in a democratic country such as Malaysia, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said last night. The police had always carried out their duties responsibly
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      Lock icon Tokyo trip reports 'untrue'
      49 10 KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denied repwts that he will visit Tokyo Bert month to discuss the rise In the value of the yen. 'The reports are not true", he said after closing a Quran readlag competition here yesterday. Bernama
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      Lock icon PAS now trying to win Indian supporters
      258 10 PAS now trying to win Indian supporters KUALA LUMPUR The opposition Parti Islam is now wooing the Indian community and is considering forming Indian consultative committees soon. The move is in line with its efforts to win non-Malay support and follows the formation of Chinese consultative committees in some states.
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      Lock icon High Court sets aside order
      70 10 KUALA LUMPUR The High Court yesterday set aside an order it made on March 22 admitting Miss Primila Thayavathi Edward as an advocate and solicitor after a protest by the Bar Council. The council said Miss Edward was not considered a qualified person under the
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      Lock icon Telecoms to go private in August
      125 10 Telecoms to go private in August KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will privatise its telecommunications network from August, the Energy, Telecommunications and Posts Minister, Datuk Leo Moggie, announced yesterday. Datuk Moggie said the government would launch the privatised telecommunications company, Syarikat Telekom Malaysia Bhd, on Aug 1. No jobs would be lost
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      55 10 KUALA LUMPUR Australia and Malaysia have ended two days of trade talks here but decided not to issue a statement about the outcome. The Malaysian delegation to the inaugural joint trade meeting on Friday was led by Datuk Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid, secretary-general of the Ministry
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      Lock icon 3 children, locked up in house, burnt to death
      173 10 3 children, locked up in house, burnt to death PETALING JAYA Three children died yesterday when fire destroyed their double-sto-rey house here. They were Tai Boon Wah, 3, his sister, Mei Kuen, 2, and their one-year-old brother Boon Siew. They were burnt beyond recognition. Firemen took about 10 minutes to
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      Lock icon MCA officials to act as go-betweens in plan
      278 10 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Chinese Association state assemblymen and members of state executive councils will act as intermediaries to help the government in the party's 15-year Master Plan for the development of new villages throughout the country. They will be co-opted into five
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      Lock icon Anwar: Bring out the best in students
      237 10 KUALA LUMPUR Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim has called for a dynamic school environment to bring out the best in the performance of Malaysian students. "Our schools should have a more active, dynamic and systematic atmosphere which will allow students to fully realise their
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      Lock icon 'Girl shed tissue paper not human tissue'
      75 10 JOHOR BARU The "tissue-paper" reportedlyshed from the eyes of a 10-year-old girl is made of paper and not human tissue, the state medical and health services director, Dr P. Ratnajothy. said yesterday. This was confirmed in a laboratory test on seven pieces of
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Govt again urged to ensure contact lenses are properly fitted
      486 11  - Govt again urged to ensure contact lenses are properly fitted AUDREY PERERA By A GROUP of optometrists thinks it is about time the Government takes a hand in training those who dispense contact lenses. And they think the matter deserves some urgency, considering there are now about 250,000 wearers here,
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      PAP ropes in pop musicians for party and charity
      440 11  - PAP ropes in pop musicians for party and charity HEDWIG ALFRED By FIRST it was the police with their successful rock concerts. Now the People's Action Party is giving its stamp of approval to pop musicians who will be lending a hand in the name of charity and party solidarity.
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      Man told wife he wanted to settle affair
      362 11 Toa Payoh murder-cum-suicide A MAN told his wife he was going to "settle" his affair with his girlfriend hours before he and the girl were found dead in Toa Payoh on Friday. Mr Yong Tee Kan, 37, a hotel chef, fell to
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      Gas dealer's incentive may be illegal
      246 11  -  MICHAEL LIM By^ A COOKING gas dealer's special offer to boost his business by offering customers a chance to win ca >h prizes has run into a snag. The dealer is now unsure if the scheme in which prizes go to customers whose receipt
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      Bail offered to 4 accused of drugging woman
      141 11 BAIL OF $10,000 was offered yesterday to a woman, her brother and two men who are accused of drugging the woman's aerobics-business partner. Police prosecutor Inspector K. Rasiah told a court that investigations have been completed into the charges against Seow Koy
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      Judge acquits lawyer of tax offence
      460 12  -  CHARMAINE CHAN By^ LAWYER Anthony Wee Soon Kim was unable to provide the information requested by the Comptroller of Income Tax because it was contained in documents that had been seized by tax officers. They told him that he could make photocopies of the
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      Crash helmet duo flee with $300,000 in jewellery
      156 12 Crash helmet duo flee with $300,000 in jewellery TWO men, dressed in black from head to toe and wearing crash helmets with tinted visors, grabbed Jewellery worth %m,m from a goldsmith shop in Clement! Avenue 3 on Friday evening. The men smashed a showcase in Mee Heng Goldsmith and Jewellery
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      Hooked to a feeling of being let down
      531 12  -  LITO GUTIERREZ By KRANJI reservoir may be teeming with fish. But only a few fish and anglers alike are biting a year after the grounds were opened to anglers. Apparently, not even the six colour pictures of anglers, with their catch of
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      Reservists' jog to forge rapport with grassroots
      251 12 Reservists' jog to forge rapport with grassroots i AT LEAST 500 reservists from 16 constituencies in the north region are expected to take part in a nine-km mass jog on June 15 in a move to establish rapport between themselves and the grassroots. Reservists' wives and children can take part
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      NTUC Income club forum
      48 12 THE inaugural forum of the 1986 NTUC Income Summit Club will be held on May 31 at 7.30 pm at the Shangri-La Hotel. Mr Wong Kan Seng, the Acting Minister for Community Development and Minister of State (Communications and Information), is the guest-of -honour.
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      Lock icon Masquerading for a good cause
      124 12 GUESS who? That was the name of the game last night at a Venetian-style masquerade held to raise funds for the Community Chest of Singapore. Some of the 450 party-goers had taken great pains and spent a lot of money on their costumes, complete with
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      Viaduct to help ease traffic flow in Thomson
      157 12 Viaduct to help ease traffic flow in Thomson A THREE-LANE dual carriageway will be built between Lornie Road and Upper Thomson Road to ease traffic flow in the area. The proposed Macßitchie Viaduct will start at Lornie Road, rise above Thomson Road, skirt the slopes of the Mount Alvernia Hospital
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      'Missing' mum's kids transferred to a home
      221 12 THE three children left by their mother in the care of a 'baby-sitter for two months, are now in a children's home. The two girls, Butet Marziah, six, and Maria Margareta, five, and their brother, Rahim Famfaisa, two, left the Singapore General Hospital
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      Profits from CPF share deals are tax-free
      210 13 Profits from CPF share deals are tax-free THE Ministry of Finance has approved tax exemption on interest and trading income paid into individual Central Provident Fund accounts under the Approved Investments Scheme. This means that profit from buying and selling shares using CPF savings will be tax exempt. But tax
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      Trial of singer and husband fixed for January
      164 13 Trial of singer and husband fixed for January THE trial of Taiwanese singer Chen Chin Pel and her husband, Tan Tal Nee, has been fixed fer Jan 12 to 14 In a district court. Chen, SS, who recently performed at the Hoover Live Theatre, and Tan, M, manager of a
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      Japanese watched us very closely, says B-G Lee
      433 13 Japanese watched us very closely, says B-G Lee THE probing questions Japanese businessmen asked about Singapore and Singaporeans are one of the lasting impressions Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong has of his recent trip to Japan. Back home after his five-day mission to promote Japanese investment in Singapore, Brig-Gen Lee,
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      Lock icon It's all in a clay's wok
      357 13  -  SALMA KHALIK By IF you see Filet of Soon Hock in Ginger Sauce or Navarin of Lamb in Basil Sauce on the menu at the Harbour Grill, they are definitely the dishes to try. Both won gold medals at the Salon Culinaire, a competition
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      Lock icon Warm 'homecoming' for Big Daddy
      322 13  -  LEE SIEW HUA Story by THEY formed a tight ring around him, joking and testing his wit again in friendly arguments. He was clearly the apple of these young ladies' eyes. Such was the happy situation school principal Eugene Wijeysingha found himself in when he
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      Unhappy householders get refunds through small claims court
      481 13 Unhappy householders get refunds through small claims court MR BELDIP Singh, owner of a four-room flat in Jurong West, engaged a renovation contractor last year to do up his new home within two months. The completion deadline came and went but the work was far from complete. Mr Cheng Tim
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      Task Force tops Share scheme
      68 13 Task Force tops Share scheme THE Police Task Force topped the honours for supporting the Community Chest of Singapore's Share (Social Help and Assistance Raised by Employees) programme among police divisions. The Queensway-based division got 99.7 per cent of its staff to contribute to the Chest through monthly salary deductions.
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      Breakfast with the birds, anyone?
      208 14  -  SUMIKO TAN By FANCY a chirpy start to the day? Soon, the Jurong Bird Park will be able to oblige with breakfast thrown in. More than 50 local singing birds will warble and whistle while visitors tuck into assorted breakfast goodies like nasi lemak, toast
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      Lock icon It's business as usual in this no-frills POSB branch
      173 14 Picture by AS FAB as Past Office Savings Bank branches go, this one at Taman Warna is the humblest. It is housed in an unpretentious container in Taman Warna, off Holland Road. This temporary branch will operate until its new branch
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      Cabby sacked for bribery attempt
      178 14 A TAXI-DRIVER who tried to bribe Comfort enforcement officers has been expelled. It was the first bribery incident that Comfort has had to deal with. The driver involved was one of two who have been expelled this year. The other lost his Comfort taxi for
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      Leprosy patient exacted a destructive revenge
      165 14 AN ANGRY leprosy patient set ablaze his landlord's wooden home after he was evicted, and then killed himself by fire. Sergeant Freddie Lim told a coroner's court on Thursday that Lim Ah Hoo, alias Chua Ah Hoo, 52, was a part-time carpenter who had
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      Singapore now part of a global medical network
      297 14 Singapore now part of a global medical network ANYTIME, anywhere that a person needs medical help, a regional emergency service is ready to provide it, even if it means flying the patient to hospital. Singapore is now part of a worldwide network of private medical centres that provides emergency services
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      Marshall donates chess trophy but feels some unease
      353 14  - Marshall donates chess trophy but feels some unease JUNE TAN By THE chess challenge trophy he is donating to Raffles Junior College is, in keeping with his character, not a cup or a shield, but one that resembles the horse or knight chess piece. "I'm a fighter (and) there's nobody
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      Free check-up at health fair
      103 14 DO YOU want to quit smoking? Or maybe pick up some tips on nutrition, how to handle diabetes, hypertension or keep your teeth till old age? Consultation on these subjects, including a free medical check-up, will be provided at a health fair today. It will
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  • The Sunday Times
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      Clothes that maketh a nation
      312 15 A SINGAPORE identity, according to Briga-dier-General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong, "is like a baby you know it's going to be born, but don't know what it's going to look like". Since it may be that clothes maketh a nation as much as they do a
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      25 YEARS AGO
      147 15 What The Sunday Times reported on May 21, 1961 THE Minister for Education, Mr Yong Nyuk Lin, yesterday spoke of anti-social elements in certain Singapore schools and warned that they faced a bleak and disastrous future. He said the government policy was to provide places in schools
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      Things get better with Mr Coca-Cola
      1179 15 Coke's big boss ROBERTO GQIZUETA stays unfazed by competition and controversy 4 He points out that sales of both CocaCola and Coca-Cola Classic are moving forward. "If I had to do it all over again, I would," he said. "I'd like to make a
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      392 15 SOME OF THE FINEST PAINTINGS IH THE WORLD. i— ,1 i W^ f/ BHC^r^ -J| I lUUi, 111 UIUCI LU I Self-portrait Rembrandt, circa 1659-60 1 of ca re devotion..^ \s- P ..^^^^^^^Wi^M j ne s t or y however, doesn't MR we lavish on this aspect of our cars
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      Kidney drive an inspiration to other interest groups
      793 16 lEdgar Koh A current campaign by the National Kidney Foundation to make organs more readily available for transplant has political implica- m tions far beyond the stated objective of the drive. I JOINED some anglers in signing a petition last week to
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      If it's a masterpiece today, it'll be a fakery tomorrow
      861 16 If it's a masterpiece today, it'll be a f akery tomorrow I Tiresias 4 What genuine art lover would want to be party to the decimation of a perfectly good Picasso? As for those who want to possess even one fragment of a masterpiece to be able to say "Come
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        Unfair to alter JC rules now
        126 16 WE, a group of Secondary Four repeat students, were surprised to read about the possibility of stricter entry rules for junior colleges (Sunday Times, April 27). If religious knowledge is not considered as a subject for entry to junior colleges from this year, we
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        The real drama
        350 16 I WOULD like to correct any wrong impression that may have been created by the "extract" of my book, The Tiger and the Trojan Horse, in The Sunday Times last week. The Sunday Times summarised some 80 pages of it in about 1,600 words. Their writer did
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        Rather work than stay back
        164 16 THE Victoria Junior College principal, Mrs Lee Phui Mun, talked about the incorrigible failures who wanted to prolong their stay in a junior college (Sunday Times, April 27). I question the validity of her observation for several reasons. Most students who do badly in the
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        Odds of dying
        182 16 I WAS interested to read last week's Singapore Snapshot about infant mortality but was puzzled by the conclusion that "the chances of an infant surviving up to then (its first i birthday) are nearly double that of a decade ago". The statistics presented for the relevant years
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      Death is an expensive business
      525 16 MY friend Por Kee has a never-say-die attitude towards life and a never-say-enough capacity for food. But that was before last week. I must confess that I didn't recognise him that Wednesday at the hawkers' centre. He was staring his prawns in the eye, instead
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      Cloud that Set off fear and panic
      1249 17 Cloud that Set off fear and panic Although the awesome consequences of a meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor have been averted, the dangers are not over yet. The reactor continues to leak. While the Kremlin has been reluctant to reveal too many details, LOUISE BRANSON managed to put together
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      Lock icon 'They were sure they could get it under control'
      667 17 IT WASN'T so much an explosion but a dull distant sound like thunder that stopped the scientists and technicians in their tracks. None of the 20--strong night shift at toe Chernobyl plant on Saturday, April 26, knew what it meant. A
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      Silence looks sweet
      347 18  -  TONTO By our man on the track Bluegrass galloper set for hat-trick in Race 3 UNBEATEN Silence Is Golden 11, striving for a hat-trick in Race 3 today, is the top bet on a card of 10 at Bukit Timah. The Bluegrass Stable galloper should book a
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      ARC team flies in on third exchange visit
      204 18 ARC team flies in on third exchange visit A 17-MEMBER delegation from the Auckland Racing Club Dew here on Friday night on its third reciprocal visit to the Singapore Turf Club. Led by Don McLaren, a senior committeeman of the ARC, several members of the party attended the races at
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      WHAT THE TIPSTERS SAY
      422 18 RACE RACING ED TONTO PEDIGREE MARKSMAN MISTER X 7 taaam 4 Tail Th* Tim* 7 Brambanart 7 Brambanan 4 T*N Th* Tim* 1 9 Distinctive 7 Brambanan 9 Distinctive 9 Distinctive 3 Irish Pleasure 6 G. Agreement 9 Distinctive 3 Irish Pleasure 4 Tell The Time
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      MUDLARKS
      127 18 BACE 1: Silk, Many Returns n. RACE 2: Ultra Wheel, Pamela's Magic, Plastic Queen. RACE S: Era Of Triumph, Amazing Bid, Mikamillion, Toy Drummer, Pulau Tioman V, Whimsicality. RACE 4: Zippy, Post Express, Smart Looker, Open Heart m. RACE 5: Fascination 111, Lone Venture, Columbian Emerald, Deputy Head, Worship,
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      5376 18 MPfM 145 CLASS 4 DIV 4 1,200m l;f.\H<l (Ratings: 71-65) (Stakes: $17,000) 1 *****7 WUuiy Betarm D 5C5 (71) First Combination-Loh 3ag same (1400m). Finished 7th to Wongawallah Div B Ipoh 1400m yielding April 26; chased Lode Runner home for 1 3 «-Iength 2nd Div 4
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      Taiping Lake to play major role
      234 18  -  PEDIGREE By^ TAIPING LAKE, with Martin Sng up, can snap a sequence of third placings in Race 7 for Class 4 top division horses over 1,400m today. The Bahroona four-year-old, who scored his only win last August, has certainly been knocking on the door
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      Tjo Tek's filly takes Oaks
      312 19 BRISBANE Three-year-old filly Travel light, owned by Tan T jo Tek of Gssdman Stable, scored her biggest success when she wen the Queensland Oaks over 2,4Mm here yesterday. Starting at 8-1, Travel light, by the classy New Zealand staying sire Bellisstmo, beat the favourite, Just
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      Lock icon $211 shock by Mandalay
      2504 19  -  OUR RACING TEAM 5L Top apprentice Kam hurt in Race 5 tumble MANDALAY D, who finished down the course in his last four outings, bounced back to form with a $211 shock win in the last race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Ridden by K.H. Chew, Mandalay
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      Lock icon Ferdy is the rock of ages
      185 19 Ferdy is the rock of ages BALTIMORE Jockey Willie Shoemaker and trainer Charlie Whittingham, the old men of racing, try to keep alive their hopes for a triple crown with a colt named Ferdinand in the U*****,000 (about SSI.I million) Preakness Stakes at Pimlico today. Ferdinand, who emerged from a
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      Honakong Bank to sponsor Derby
      258 19  -  JACK ELLIOTT 5. MELBOURNE Victoria's spring racing carnival starting in October and culminating in the running of the Melbourne Cup on Nov 4 will get a hefty injection of international money with the Victoria Racing Club's announcement that the Hongkong Bank of Australia will sponsor
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  • OBITUARIES
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      184 In Memoriam
      107 19 In Loving M>mory Of MADAM QUAH PEH HOE I DEPARTED 18.5.85 Thoughts of you brings back memories of one we loved so dear Alway* ramambarad by: aona, dawghtara. torn A daugh-tara-tn a ijw, grand A grast grand" cnilorsn. In Mamory Of MOM. MARY TAV SIANG HOMO Diptrtld
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      182 Acknowledgements
      94 19 The family of t he la t e Mdm. Pun Man Hoi Departed 4.546 wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all relatives, friends for their attendance, donations wreaths during their recent bereavement Special thanks to doctors nursesofWd^^CH^^^^^ We wnti Jo »iprin Mir nimcmn gratitude ajnd thankt to
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  • OBITUARIES
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      181 Deaths 181 Deaths
      510 20 MADAM SIN YOKE LIN Passed away peacefully on 17th May. 1986 leaving behind beloved: Son* D—yWfi in l>» Chan Mun Yew Low Imm Neo. Noellne Chan Mun Yoke Leong Ah Tal OauQhtsfv SoitSHivww Chan Kam Yoong Yee Hong Cheng (Deceased) Chan Kam Ytn Ow Ah Soon
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      181 Deaths
      132 20 YEO KEAY BARK AGE 75 piiild away piaciMcy on 17/5/S6 WMk Lim Ng Tlan Yeo Eng Meng Yeo Eng Khern Wong Song Klaw Yeo Sheu Peng Yeo Nguang Pheow Yeo Juay Poh Orandaon: Yeo Han Chong Granddaughter Yeo Lee San gah Cmcwl, #11-482 Spore 0409 foe Ml. Vomofi
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      183 Condolences
      58 20 With d«ip«»t sympathy to the wHo HoYMKhiM Sadly wlllld by the SAC, PrincifMt!, Staff Mid Pupils of MounttMtwn Pniiifliiy Scfiooli 1 am the Heeurrec«ion and the LMe; he whobeNevea in Me. though ha fllf, T^' JnSfll Rv ItWf MIO WnOvVvT ij),,, mm%M In 11. .k^ji aa^aßMa* »iwi •■■m
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      886 20  - Time to invest in young converts TAY CHENG KHOON I i Parent bodies can help those with promise but without the purse IT took all his breath away... blowing the 21 candles on the birthday cake. But, despite the flushed face, it was a pleasant task, just as it was
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      540 20 FOREIGN GOLF MADRID lan Baker-Finch, of Australia, birdied the last three holes for a 68 to take the halfway lead in the Spanish Open golf championship at La Moraleja yesterday. He finished seven-under-par on 137, two ahead of Britain's Howard Clark, who shot 71.
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      477 20 Teofilo, Adolfo about to create history BOXING RENO (Nevada) Cubans Teofilo Stevenson and Adolfo Horta both moved within one victory of making amateur boxing history as they advanced to the finals of the World Championships here on Friday. Three-time Olympic champion Stevenson, fighting as a super-heavyweight, and the lightweight Horta
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      Algae's the crust of the problem
      480 20 SINGAPORE ISLAND COUNTRY CLUB: The unsightly algae that has been plaguing the Bermuda greens of the Sime Course will soon be a pest of the past. The algae also found at the New Course and at Tanah Merah had formed a hard crust, making
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      154 20 Club-head speed counts at length POWERFUL men are often mvsttuc outdriven by a sttp of girl wb« Is dearly Ml even inn fit The reason Is that length Is not t upwind of niudlAr stNturtii iMt ctofctoM speed, which Is Ike reoalt of a well-timed swing.
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      934 20  -  DERMOT PURGAVIE S^JapPH^ T" HE biggest and dirtiest 1 game in town has now begun. Hie result will determine the future of professional football in America and possibly reaffirm an old tradition: that a pushy brat who kicks his elders' ankles and makes a lot
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      492 21 United, they have stood, but divided they fe11... WATCHING an incredibly boring game of baseball between the Atlanta Braves and someone called The Phillies way down south in Georgia last weekend, it wasn't surprising that thoughts wandered to what might be happening in a rather different ball game at Wembley.
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      618 21 Detroit down: California beat Detroit 11-1 in an American Major League baseball match on Friday. Other results: American League Texas 4 Boston 1, Seattle 7 NY Yankees 3, Toronto 7 Cleveland 6, Chicago 4 Kansas 2, Oakland 8 Baltimore 4, Milwaukee 7 Minnesota 6. National League LA Dodgers
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      291 21 THE REST OF TENNIS THE TEAMS Argentina Martin Jaite, Guillermo Vilas, Marcelo Ingaramo. Australia Paul McNamee, Broderick Dyke, John Fitzgerald, Pat Cash. Czechoslovakia Miloslav Mecir, Tomas Smid, Pavel Slozil. France Thierry Tulasne, Henri Leconte, Guy Forget. Sweden Mats Wilander. Joakim Nystrom, Anders Jarryd. Switzerland Heinz Gunthardt, Jakob
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      Walking his baby back home
      1409 21  -  ALAN HUBBARD ALWAYS ON SUNDAY A whole new bawl game for Mac-the-nice who seems happy losing to love at Wimbledon Mac's greatest hits John McEnroe is the all-time leading money-winner in men's open tennis, with career earnings of $8,956,687. His year-by-year total since turning pro
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      449 21 ROME Wimbledon champion Boris Becker crashed out of the U*****,000 ($957,000) Italian Open on Friday when he was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by unseeded Spaniard Emilio Sanchez in the quarter-finals. The 18-year-old West German, the third seed here, led briefly only once early in the second
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      No goal and no glitter in drawn yawn
      319 22  - No goal and no glitter in drawn yawn MAHMOOD GAZNAVI By WITH both sets of forwards playing as if they had weights on their ankles, the Premier League hockey match between Ceylon Sports Club and Khalsa at Balestier Road yesterday only rarely promised a goal. In the event, no one
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      Lock icon Pleat makes the move to Tottenham
      561 22 Pleat makes the move to Tottenham K< ft l *slfcl|] *T T mJI aO f LONDON David Pleat finally decided on Friday to accept the job as manager of English First Division club Tottenham Hotspur. Pleat, manager at Luton for nearly nine years, rang his chairman David Evans to tell
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      Lock icon Modestly blase
      1416 22  -  JANICE SEAH SAID AND DONE 41 used to be modest about it, but I'm not anymore. I have a talent and I've stopped denying it anymore because I think I finally see it for what it is. I can't claim any glory because it's God-given and I'm truly
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      289 22  -  BERNARD PEREIRA THE point I was trying to make in my comment headlined "Feed the lads to the lions" that appeared in the Sunday Times of April 27 was that Singapore or anyone in the Singapore Thomas Cup team for that matter should not go around blowing
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      The Russian revolution of Dynamos
      1231 23  - The Russian revolution of Dynamos ROB HUSHES The Kiev connection goes a full circle as desperate Soviets look for the winning formula TALK OF SOCCER THE World Cup winds blow fair from Kiev. Apart from 1 scaring half of Europe witless from its nuclear accident, the Ukraine has suddenly become
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        493 23 COPENHAGEN Denmark scored a 1-0 win over fellowWorld Cup finalists Poland last night in a warm-up which went some way to redeeming their miserable 1-0 defeat by Norway last Tuesday. With a capacity crowd of 44,300 behind them, the Da.ies played a steady, skilful
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        467 23 Military might is given top priority MEXICO CITY Mexican authorities have launched an unprecedented security campaign to protect visiting teams, officials and fans during the World Cup Finals. Armoured cars with mounted tank cannon or machineguns are already patrolling streets around airports, team hotels and training centres. The first thing
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        456 23 PUEBLA The coach and stars of Italy have apologised for evading hundreds of fans and reporters waiting at the international airport for their arrival on Thursday. Coach Enzo Bearzot, at a press conference in this city south of the capital, said he had not
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      A brave new morning, SBC
      871 23  - A brave new morning, SBC JEFFREY LOW Lowdown on Sport AS the World Cup draws nearer and nearer each day, ripples of excitement are breaking on our shores, all the way from Mexico on the one issue that will settle once and for all whether Singapore rank among the most
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      23 21 Manchester I nlted drew 2-2 yesterday with Hongkong's First Division team Sooth China In an exhibition match. Sooth China led 2-* at hall-time.
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      212 22 Jean rolls into contention THE well for the Sunday Times/Coca-Cola Sporting Achievement of the Month award is a little SPORTING dry this month. ACHIEVEMENT There is an unexpected 0F THE MONTH candidate, though. House-wife-bcwler Jean Tan. who topped the national squad's roll-offs last week. in his track and field Her
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      Sport Aid: The big event Singapore decided not to enter
      550 24  -  ALAN HUBBARD COMMENT. ••By ALL over the world from now until next weekend, sports people will be running, jumping, throwing and kicking their way towards a new goal. Famine relief for Africa. Sport Aid is described as the biggest global
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      831 24 THE WORLD CUP FAVOURITES BATTLE INJURY AND INTERNAL FRICTION IN THEIR QUEST TO CHOOSE A COHESIVE SQUAD A¥BM*dB6 MEXICO CITY The tension is beginning to tell as Brazil's wretched preparations for the World Cup finals lurch from one problem to another. With 15 days to go
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      237 24 Semi-final tip by German coach KAMEN (West Germany) West German manager Franz Beckenbauer made a guarded prediction about his team's prospects in the World Cup after naming his squad, saying the side were capable of reaching the semi-finals. "Everything is there, every playing type is represented. I consider it possible
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      134 24 MEXICO CITY Mexico's press yesterday attacked Italy's World Cup squad for alleged discourtesy and wrote off the chances of fancied Brazil. Italy, the 1982 champions, avoided newsmen when they arrived here on Friday night, slipping onto their coach while team officials created a diversion. "They may be the
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        233 24  -  ALBERT JOHNSON By PRESIDENT'S Cup champions Tiong Bahru CSC defeated Ayer Rajah Wanderers 2-0 at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday for their second successive National Football League Division One win but needed a "gift" goal to get the ball rolling. The silver platterserved goal
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        263 24  -  JOE DORAI By LAST season, Farrer Park Dynamos averted a possible demotion mainly because of striker Charlie Scott's scoring prowess. He netted 14 of their 20 goals in the 18 Division One League matches, saving them from defeat on many occasions. But tonight Dynamos will
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      286 24 Mac's in but he can't be serious NEW YORK John McEnroe's name on an entry list for Wimbledon does not mean he will play in the tournament, his father and the Association of Tennis Professionals agreed yesterday. And John McEnroe Sr again said it was not likely his son would
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      Trek throuqh theatre's hinterland
      684 1 TheatreWorks' Rashomon (right) played to packed houses last weekend and the St*ars' production of West Side Story fared just as well. VALERIE LEE reports on a new Ch 12 series which could throw light on the mystery of theatre magic. and the handful of people who
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        613 2  -  JULIE TAN By PERFORMERS are popularly believed to lead a double life. An outrageous, larger-than-life existence onstage, a simple, ordinary routine offstage. Not always. For Danny Chan Pak Keung, it's just the reverse. Onstage before the fans, Danny oozes boy-next-door charm. Friendly, simple. Once out
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        558 2 DANNY Chan strolled casually on stage, and with a disarming smile and a "hello" kicked off his first Singapore concert last Thursday night. There was little fanfare. Indeed, throughout his entire 70-minute show at the World Trade Centre Auditorium, the Hongkong star came across
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        542 3  -  LIM KAY TONG By INTO THE NIGHT At Jade Starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, David Bowie Directed by John Londis LOS Angeles at night is a city of shadows and soundlessness. The kind of place where distances are so great that you can drive for
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        503 3  - When a schoolgirl romance is not all rose-tinted JULIE TAN By, DEVOTED TO YOU Coming To Eng Woh Cinemas Stoning Jacky Cheung, May Lo, Li Lai Chan, Wong Ming Tuck IN SPITE of its deceptively frivolous opening, Devoted to You is not just another schoolgirl comedy. While it deals with
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        933 7 New groups emerging on the pop scene each year are usually young and brash. But the members of Mr Mister, the group which soared to Number One with the hits Broken Wings and Kyrie, are nearer their 40s than their teens. JOHN SMALLWOOD meets
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        660 7  -  LIM SEK POP REVIEW By THE SECRET VALUE OP DAYDREAMING Julian Lennon (Virgin) THIS album suits the cool and subdued Julian Lennon thoroughly. He couldn't have found a more appropriate title either the 10 tracks are the perfect accompaniment to daydreaming, to taking things
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        899 15 Japanese songs are steadily winning over foreign fans and not just overseas. RYOZO DOI reports on an annual talentime for foreigners in Tokyo. LAST November, TV Tokyo announced the winners of its Japanese popular song contest for foreign warblers. Twenty-six men and women
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        389 15 HE ripped apart a small town in the United States and singlehandedly rescued PoWs stranded in Vietnam. Starting last month, Sylvester Stallone's larg-er-than-life pop hero John J. Rambo took on American TV's cartoon world. Rambo premiered as a fivepart, syndicated, animated mini-series, with
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        522 16  -  JULIE TAN LOOK (EAST I By THE mole must go. Taiwanese singer Cai Qing. after a long period of soul-searching, has decided to get rid of her trademark mole, prominently located beneath her eye. Time and again, friends have advised her to remove
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        All's a riot on the beauty fronts
        733 16  -  JAIME LYE TV REVIEW I By DEPENDING on what time you tuned in to the Miss Sin-gapore-Universe pageant last Sunday night, you could hardly be blamed if you thought you had stumbled onto: (a) a demonstration of 1,001 things to do with the
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        Soccer proves as addictive as Dallas
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      609 13 15 Aquariums 16 Flowers/Plants POTTED ROSE PLANTS from Bangkok in various colours. Pis. come to: Nyee Phoe Flower Garden Pte Ltd, 61 Dunearn Road. S'pore 1130. 18 Homo Furniture/ Furnishing ORDER YOUR MADE to order built-in kitchen cabinets, wardrobes St other carpentry work direct from factory. Contact *****09 for enquiries.
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      583 13 22 Stamps/Coins 08/ C 'WEALTH DEF/ Co mm FDC price list Philip Low. Bukit Batok West P.O. Box 32 (9165) 23 Shopping Guide BARGAIN BAZAAR 2ND storey Promotional Sale now on. All prices reduced 10% 50%. Artificial plants and flowers, bangles, kitchenwares, electrical appliances, video tapes for sale/ rent, watches,
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      1561 13 25 Sala: Other 25 Sala: Other 25 Sa(e Olher Products Products p rO ducts RMade In Singapore ity Brand Products Pretty undergarments from the designer at Beauty the elegant, styling and good quality materials, laces and spandex fabrics imported from Japan. Duo to the strong Japanese Van, we are forced
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      659 13 38 TV/ Video/ Hi-Fi DR. THOMAS POWERAMP 150W RMS x 2 $900. Esoteric audio research 14 tubes pre-amp $1,100, Lin Sondek LPI2 with Nirwan-a-Varhalla, Syrinx PU2 St AR cartridge (new) all for $700. Nakamichi 1000 tape-deck $500. Call Vincent *****53. SM BERTAGM ELECTRACOUSTIC speakers, $450. Tannoy bookshelf speakers, $250. Tamon
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      891 14 86 For Sato: BMW '84 BMW 320i i doo'f Manual i j pte uw.xez. Car, m up lop cond J High (H>»fr radio cassette Kull accessories. See to appreciate CaH .-mxvi after 10a m 84 BMW 320i .'door Auto SBB pjale Blaupunkl ni-fi. showroom condition $52,000 Tel 7U4.573 »yam to
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      964 14 90 For Sato: Toyota FEW MTHS. OLD Toyota Starlet. I^-valve AtrCOn High power cassette Very .seldom used Guaranteed brand new $24,600 View IS Khte Terrace, off siglap Road LATE -82 TOYOTA Tercel 1300 New model 1 careful owner sdoor Aircon Concord radio cassette, low mileage, accident free $16,700 Tel *****77
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      917 14 92 For Sale: Mazda '81 MAZDA 323 1 3. 5-speed. Notchback with aircon. radio cassette. Road tax: 5/86. 2 private owners. Tip top condition Call: Roger Goh. *****33. MAZDA 828 COUPE 1983. 1 owner Aircon., radio cassette PARF. Showrm cond. Lady driver Low mileage $22,000 ono *****12. NEAR 82 MAZDA
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      928 14 96 For Sato: Other Makes AUGUST '80 JAGUAR XJ6 4.2 LITRES Fully automatic in immaculate condition. Private owner. Interested buyers, please offer to S.E. Ho *****55 '78 MERCEDES 200 $21,700. '78 120Y $7,800. '77 120Y saloon s/wagon $5,800. '72 Mazda 1000 $3,200 '62 Austin A4O $3,000. '80 Mazda 9' pick-up
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      699 14 98 Sale/Wanted: Motor Cycles/Scooters SELLING CHEAP FB Kawasaki 400 LTD. Showroom condition Interested call: *****98. YAMAHA RD3SOLC $1,900 ono Excellent cond. Albert Ho tel *****27. YAMAHA RD3SO C.C. Power bar good cond. 'AM9X'. $1,900. CallRicky Ong at: *****27. 1/81 VEBPA PISOX, 1 owner. Rust-proof, tip top cond. $1,250 0.n.0. Tel:
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  • SUNDAY PLUS
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      21 1 SUNDAY PLUS Mind and Body Fashion B Food Motoring I Arts and Books Travel I The Sunday Times, May 18, 1986
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        186 1 mSmWmWSmi*®^ WmW __|p^__ _________^^r 'v-'; II R II ll H B^ L""i[^l I Jl 'i^^ I' I '^^H^^^H |I9 E^^l :'^H Ik 'In Br '^M --Ik i y. Bt j J -jB JL^B .^^l e a "I^l Hct r t /\t Cathay Pacific, we've always been slightly ahead of our
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        Coping with a silver spoon
        2233 1 RELATIVE VALUES Retired industrialist and diplomat Ho Rih Hwa and son Kwonping talk about how they perceive and influence each other in the first article of an occasional series. LIM KAY TONG reports Mr Ho Rih Hwa, a self-made millionaire, was Singapore's former ambassador to
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        Lock icon Be upbeat and beat sickness
        166 2 AN optimistic personality helps a person under stress fight off illness, new research in the United States reveals. Personality affects immune cell strength, which influences whether people become sick or not, psychologists say. Tests on the immune system show it is not stress, but the
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        When spouses stray
        866 2 Picking up the pieces DISCOVERING your spouse is having an affair can be devastating. If you want to save your marriage, here's some advice from the experts: Allow a cooling-down period before taking any action. Don't start your own affair for revenge. Never discuss the affair after
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        69 2 <ft &&W IMrSB^jP^B «>j- <|rw |t% -)>Am JL IL-1V LIIC UCM« j^f "> *^Lj^r McVitie's biscuits are pF "ITf"'' J^ Britain's favourite. People Jl ..^4 1 Kkfei HO tor the delicious. 2JMC H^2 V MfVitie'susesonK choice w grade ingredients. The finest V wholemeal wheat, milk ■^BBBK^^Or^^p^^^Bßll^BHßM^^3j^^^^^^^^^y chocolate, vegetable oil. cane
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        90 2 Get a new i• i i slim look. Is your appetite spoiling your diet plan? Just take one Mirapront-N capsule in the morning and keep your appetite under control all day long. Mirapront-N is an effective diet aid which you can buy economically. So you can lose weight faster when
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        Lock icon Will the baraain rush last?
        722 3 Although crowds are jamming Metro Golden Mile's bargain floor, other department stores are adopting a wait-and-see attitude, reports LIM PHAY-LING IT WAS conceived six to eight months ago as an innovation to draw crowds to the Golden Mile store. But the Metro chain is finding
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        Lock icon Skirts and trousers make a classic comeback in New York
        287 3 I FASHFLASH AFTER introducing mannish clothes a few seasons back and then switching to the current ultra-sexy styles, fashion designers have found a middle ground for autumn best described as classics. At the fall fashion shows in New York recently,
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        Lock icon Monika, the world-beater at 14, says she is a slob
        366 3 MONIKA Schnarre, 14, the newly-crowned Super Model of the World, is the youn-gest-ever to win the title. Two Sundays ago, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation telecast the January quest when she beat models from 22 other countries in the Ford Model
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        216 3 Frfsh FRUITY& Fascinating If you love the unusual, you'll love smoothened with Passion what we've done to trim. We've ffff^ |||h i^m Fruit Sauce. Or Papaya concerted an exotic menu of jßfc&g-^ anc Yoghurt Mousse or seafood g^ crepes filled and meats J^^v W witn tne served with 1 jfc^^£
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        434 3 100% ROSEWOOD DtNING SP j 1 1 fcywMtpCPagpeyyjl rosewood side board rw~i r*-**. > \t^ofk LATEX CUSHIONS SILK COVER^^^nT UR NOW $1080 'I|f I h^^^^a^l^A TABLE GLASS TOP a B PJi^^ UP $3680 NOW $2680 g«™&mmmm*l up S^Jo now $1680 II 118 INLAID IN 9 <3mm- TEA TABLE 6 O
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        Italian high note
        712 4 Pasta can be eaten in an elegant setting. MARGARET CHAN points the way I AT OUT GRAND' Italia is named for its cuisine: Italian dishes served in grand style. Before this restaurant opened its white portals, Singapore residents had to be content with Italian food served on
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        Nasi lemak: Party piece and poor man's fare
        1024 4  -  LEE GEOK BOI EAT IN By THE Singhalese call it keeii bat, the Tamils copra kana. We call it nasi lemak. Coconut rice by any other name would smell and taste just as good. Whether eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner, nasi
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        Lock icon What you eat is how you'll smell
        400 4 Grand' Italia Restaurant, The Glass Hotel, 317 Outran) Road, tel *****88 Hours: Mondays to Saturdays: Noon to 3pm, 7pm to 10.30pm. Closed on Sundays. Recommended: Chicken liver pate with hazelnut and pistachios, $14; salad of raw beef with celery and parmesan cheese, seasoned
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        166 4 The facts about instant coffee in black and white. MMP^ AH jX?~ Boncafe's New Brazilian Instant Coffee is mac e on ty mm 10® O// A l3^ 03 beans. They are WmF fl^^^H^ e co^ ee eans mone y can buy. iJ^^^^^^B Drink a cup of Boncafe's New Brazilian J^^|
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        106 4 Irniture W? SS«* «*!i!i T^T S,ngapor^onWe« 9pm W^_ Dl llm IQ^nnn Rosewooa »n,nq se- 1 COOnfl P^ji ffilylß iiH $3200 w/w> I H >• f«tv%m B|fc^^t«f B** ITH Hit r It I i| I Idj Hk V i^ belt [ici 1 if'ee cus-' r gia^ e toe vfc^W I I
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        Rising yen gives Continental cars a new lustre
        520 5  - Rising yen gives Continental cars a new lustre DAVID TOH By AT A time when prices of almost all cars have gone up substantially because of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, one firm is bucking the trend by lowering its showroom prices. San Motors, agent for Italian Fiat and Lancia
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        A saloon with plenty of room for the family
        688 5  -  WINSTON LEE By Sunny, yesterday my life was Oiled with pain, Sunny, you smiled at me and my life's not the same. THE lyrics of this old pop song kept running through my mind as I began my test of the
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        99 5 Hamlyn BEST RECIPES is packed full of the most popular of Hamlyns recipes with imaginative ideas tor every occasion, from the simplest of family suppers to more elaborate party creations The chapters cover soups and starters, poultry and game, meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, salads and vegetables, rice and pasta. Clear,
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        356 5 Great news for motorists David Toh, The Sunday Times, April 20, 1986 reviews: g Overall, »> S* an Ameri/^UEIUII I 188 VilElflLUPEs THE PROVEN SUPERIOR SYNTHETIC MOTOR OIL Sole distributor: Beswick Trading Pte Ltd 7500A Beach Road, #o6-322, The Plaza Singapore 0719. Tel: *****01 Authorised dealers: A.A. Centre Hands D-l-Y
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        438 5 Are you handicapped by your English? Are you content with the way errors How to express your ideas you speak and write? Are you fluently. sure that you are not making The study requires onl> a mistakes that cause people to little time, and very moderate underrate you? You are
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        Traditional dance takes a modern turn at the Fest
        1078 6 Trying new things, new themes. That seems to be the motto of dance groups in Singapore for this year's Festival of Arts. Indian and Chinese dances, and even classical ballet, will all have a touch of the unusual, reports ANG LAY
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        German drawings that challenge the mind
        807 6  -  CHIA WAI HON ART I By MANY questions crop up when one visits the Contemporary German Drawings exhibition, on at the National Museum Art Gallery until May 25. How does one react to a drawing which appears at first glance to be an attempt
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        276 6 Chinese Carpets pil Stock Clearance Sale Vg% :y 1 Z£ _____^^^H A/ e'd like to thank our customers for their invaluable support v V JTm yilMl MB^B *V during our sale, from Ist to llth May We'd also like to t I a P olo 6 lsefor an y inconvenience
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        31 6 Read Faces in SECRETS OF THE FACE The do-it-yourself guide to the Chinese art of reading love, fortune, personality from Face Shapes and Features. Available at all good bookshops 0 FEDERAL
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        161 6 Voyage The Incredible Yangtse... A Special Offering From Lindblad sW Jiyj j 9 "iwiffß'm Js^min^^m^' R Join Lindblad Travel for a 7-day cruise you will never forget! Magnificent scenery, fascinating ancient sites, and charming out-of-the-way towns and cities, plus the luxury of travelling by ship, are now all available in
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        347 7 EVER taken a vacation that just fell flat? One in which you had too much to do and your children had too little. For a satisfying vacation, take a long look at the person you're trying to please. If we take the time to
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        Your friendly local tour 'shop'
        523 7 Once, the furthest they took you was Pulau Langkawi. Today, community centre trips range much wider and cost less than those bought direct from an agent, reports THIO LAY HOON. ANYONE for a community centre-organised holiday? It is Just like any other holiday. Many do
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        Some CC offers for the June break
        362 7 IF YOU decide to take a holiday organised by your community centre, here's a sample of the kinds of tours organised by five CCs for the June school holidays. To sign up, call at the relevant community centre. KALLANG CC Scubfr-diving Club A
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        192 7 YOU may not have to leave your nest to be as free as a bird on vacation. For many, home may be the best place to rest. Experts suggest at-home vacations when: THE hassle of travel seems too much. Some people are
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        381 7 g— ji3U^ RELIANCE Glamorous Crazy Horse De Paris Show IKjTTf<JifcW ac HONG KONG TOURS Ocean Park Sung Dynasty Village Visit Asia T.V. Studios h^h^B^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^^^BVß^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hb Jon Reliance! Your No. 1 choice for a great Sumptuous meals he I day. First class accommodation ALL GIRLS REVUE SHOW $1349 RELIANCE TRAVEL AGENCIES (S)
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        501 8 THE Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic state which practises a parliamentary system of government. Its Constitution is the "Basic Law" of May 23, 1949. It comprises 11 states (Laender), including Berlin (West). The country lies in the heart of Europe, surrounded by the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
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        A streak of lightning on the tracks
        423 8 WHEN the speed indicator touched the record mark of 317 km an hour, cheering broke out from railway officials and journalists. Never before in Germany had a train travelled along the rails as fast as on Nov 26, 1965, on the Bielefeld-Essen line.
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        Green Week heats up Berlin winter
        657 8  -  ANNA LEE By IT IS an event which has existed for 60 years. Not even the cold winter could keep away the thousands of Berliners and foreigners from the International Green Week this year. From Jan 24 to Feb 2, distinctive green and yellow
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        Economy continues to show upswing
        681 9  -  DR H. E. RIEGER By South-east Asia delegate for the Federal Office for Foreign Trade Information THERE have recently been quite a few similarities between the German and the Singaporean economies. Both have entered a phase of restructuring and reshaping. Both have an unemployment problem.
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        Will to create trade and investment
        276 9 MESSAGE DR RICHARD LOUIS Ambassador "SECOND economic miracle" this was a recent Straits Times headline, referring to my country's recovery from a slowdown similar to Singapore's present recession. "Negative growth" should, on the other hand, not be a nightmare if the will to roll
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        161 8 Who is happy to wash this lot every day fcr years andyears without complainings f y° u w iW wonder how you ever managed without it. Which is a very good r «Wfej^fr^iig > J6 HI havp to mmmm -^^^^^^^^S/Kl^r Bosch dishwashers are built to icij uiiciiiciii3. First, the Bosch
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    • Federal Republic of Germany
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        Restaurant where the stars meet
        363 10 Restaurant where the stars meet •-GERMAN food has made a Cofifluest of the French palate. An vieux Berlin is a gourjnet restaurant on Avenue XJeqrges V in Paris, the capital of haute cuisine, that has achieved success in the lion's tog I-IBDener Schnitzel has triever entrecote steak -jffciir pork steaks
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        Young, dynamic and self-employed
        851 10 Z Adopting the motto m 'The computer does not bite", Dagmar Hoffmann and Gunter Falkus mixed the latest technical developments on the computer market with proven teaching recipes to form their own unique, game-like form of computer-based a learning. 7 Ideas make money. Two Germans who
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        A people in tune with the times
        812 11 The past is not forgotten. A trip to any one of the museums will take you back from the days of the flying machines to those of the dinosaurs. IMAGINE every Singaporean making 23 trips a year to the museum. That will give
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        Artificial intelligence steps into a new age
        1175 12 An interview with Prof Dr Dieter Schutt from Siemens Corporate Research and Technology Division, Munich Q: Professor Schutt, from reading a variety of publications, one gets the impression that we are about to experience a new and powerful wave of automation, that expert
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        Stepping out in style
        680 13 RISK-TAKING is the essence of style. Mary Quant did it in the 60s. So did Andy Warhol. The Parisians do it. So do the Milanese. But what about the Germans? The young trendies of Berlin and Munich take the risks in parading the outlandish styles known
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        Lock icon The horseless carriage completes a century
        773 14 The horseless carriage completes a century THIS year, the "king of the road" will celebrate its 100th birthday. And it is still very much in the prime of life. It was in 1886 that Karl Benz in Mannheim and Gottlieb Daimler in Stuttgart ran the petrol-powered motor-car, the "carriage without
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        Lock icon Record trade surplus expected
        759 15 4 The country's five loading economic research institutes' forecast of 3.5 per cent growth this year in Gross National Product, which measures total output of goods and services, is more conservative than recent projections from banking houses and the Bundesbank. WEST GERMANY will post a record
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        678 16 FOUR pairs of dots in the hazy March morning sky are harbingers of another busy day at Frankfurt International Airport. They slowly increase in size and brightness as they descend towards the as yet barely visible woodland to the east. There can be no mistaking
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        A school 500 m under water
        616 16 BEFORE entering the underwater simulator, the deep-sea diver smokes his last cigarette, says goodbye to his family and then disappears into the darkness for days. At weekends, the family can pay him a visit, look and wave through the portholes. They can also speak
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        637 10 m Technology from FUCHS of West Germany meW K Titan CFE engine oil gives your car top What*s more, the CFE component has a co^ a^ nS uo\A a^ t— -^f engine performance and a hanger trouble- special friction reducing effect: It does dlS petsed co^ an s free life.
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        35 10 BrLIZZ i mm* H^L i w^l I^^VV^^H^tHWl 11DIIMMM V I' II I W ■r' s]| I I B3 i I- We've thought of everything. Low Voltage Switchgear from BBC Brown Boveri covers every possible application
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        396 11 ii i ii —i -JCongratulations to the Government and the federal Republic of Germany on their CbnstitiitiQttll||jH Vi^ve created a totally new sensation. It took seven years and an ir credible i =7] sideration. We've got it down to around .1.5 much less stress for the driver thanks to anatomicallytwenty
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        504 12 BBpNt '^1 Mi,,,, J^mJi— L -lilHPV^MiitjSiilußH Bk S »*!^^B At last. What yotfve wantedto do for ages. Airconditioning forms the largest part of your yours off), car battery chargers, microwave ovens, electricity bill Now here's a chance to drastically washing machines in fact any appliance operating rt-duce your costs on
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